Quotes About Reaction

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. EPICTETUS, 1st–2nd century1

Every emotion (such as happiness or disgust) includes an affective reaction, but most of our affective reactions are too fleeting to be called emotions (for example, the subtle feelings you get just from reading the words happiness and disgust).

Avoiding triggers

When someone in a moral community desecrates one of the sacred pillars supporting the community, the reaction is sure to be swift, emotional, collective, and punitive.

Milo mugged for the camera again, turned and faced Frisk, drew back his arm and hit Frisk, hard, in the face.

What was so funny before?" I asked. "When…? Oh," she said. "The look on your face." "My face?" "Like you showed up to prom and your best friend had on the same dress." "Is that it." "Pretty much." "Marcia Marcia Marcia.

The girl's eyes rolled high and he fell backward. Dez

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Is it just me,' Kipps said, 'or does that boy need punching?' 'It's not just you.

Die Katastrophe war so verheerend, dass jede normale Reaktion unangemessen war.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

If it upsets you better not recall it." --from The Chalk Garden

If it upsets you better not recall it.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan

In transforming the soul of sinful man, Jesus will set in motion an eternal chain reaction that will change all things forever (1 Cor. 15).

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play ' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.

Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

John only knew three ways to react to people. If they were his superior officers, he obeyed them. If they were part of his squad, he helped them. If they were a threat, he neutralized them.

thought possible a few months earlier. . . . Today, as Korra raced along the pier on the back of her polar bear–dog, Naga, Aang's gaze felt troubled. She knew it was impossible. The statue was mere stone, nothing more, but the city Korra was sworn to protect had been so damaged in the recent attack that she couldn't help imagining Aang's reaction. She was sure it would mirror her own. Korra pulled Naga to a halt in front of Republic

My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.